How to remove the “category” folder

I fixed this one by a one line ‘hack’ in wp-includes/template-functions-category.php

On line 35;


// revhack, 9-9-2006 0:34, remove /category
$catlink = preg_replace( '/\/category/', '', $catlink, 1);


Works like a charm as you can see on https://tekstack.remidain.com

it’s late, should be tekstack.remidian.com

remivisser, or anybody else – does this solution cause a problem? I want to try and figure out a way around this without hacking the core, but I’m worried that other people in this thread seem to think this would break some functionality…? I don’t know why you would need to have a prefix for categories – but maybe I’m craaazy!??! ??

I guess another solution would be to make Pages that emulate the category pages…

I fixed this one by a one line ‘hack’ in wp-includes/template-functions-category.php

On line 35;

Didn’t work for me, am using 2.0.4 and what happens is that it isn’t able to display page 2 (categoryname/page/2 vs category/categoryname/page/2). Sorry guys, I agree with the uselessness of the ‘category’ label, at least for my own purposes. I guess Pages can be distinguished by presentation/layout anyway. =(

trevorturk, pages emulating categories don’t exactly cut it. you can change navigation links, but the category links in the posts will still point to /category/something/

No hacks are needed to do this. Just set your category base to ./

No hacks are needed to do this. Just set your category base to ./

This doesn’t work for me. It makes the urls without “category” but hitting a link say blah.com/categoryname just gives me what blah.com would give me…all the categories.

This really should be treated. With so many requests and such a useful request, I can’t believe it hasn’t already.

Though I have to say for me, the word *category* actually saved my site from getting all messy and I was thankful I had it.

Reason being…

I am working on moving an “Awards” category to an “Awards” Set of pages.

so.. for example, now I have my links so the category is
https://www.aleeya.net/category/awards/award name

and the pages are going in
https://www.aleeya.net/awards/award name

so, if I did not have “category” in there, you can only imagine the problems I would have with 60+ pages getting mixed up with permalinks of posts if the word “category” was not in there.

I have a couple other “categories” that I am having to do this with too.. so that *Could* get messy.

Another reason that I am glad it distinguishes the two with the name *category*.. saves me from having a HUGE mess.

then again, I always have been an oddball..

No hacks are needed to do this. Just set your category base to ./

It works for the most part, but not for paged category archives. It returns a 404 error. Any other ideas? ??

This does not work for me at all. I put in ./ and it changes automatically to /.

One thing that works for me is this:

Leave the category base alone.

When you are linking to the category in your navigation just make the link:

mysite.com/mycategory

instead of

mysite.com/category/mycategory

The category still works fine and displays how you want it. The only problem would be if you had a page with the same name as your category. If not I can’t find any conflicts.

Obviously doesn’t work if you are using a template tag to display the links to your categories.

Let me know if you find any conflicts with this method.

It doesn’t work for me ?? I don’t get the same results when I write

https://www.rodadas.net/blog/category/blog/citas/

than when I go

https://www.rodadas.net/blog/blog/citas/

Any other ideas?

I found this on ‘a href=”https://www.clausheinrich.com/seo/change-or-remove-the-category-from-your-permalinks-on-a-wordpress-blog-34.html”‘Claus Heinrich Personal Weblog’/a’

‘blockquote’Find the file wp-includes/classes.php and about halfway down you can change the settings.
To remove the category like above do this:

$this->category_structure = $this->front . ‘category/’;

change it into this:

$this->category_structure = $this->front;
‘/blockquote’

But in order for it to work, you MUST have the Apache’s mod_rewrite module on. To do this, just write ‘blockquote’RewriteEngine on’/blockquote’ on your .htcaccess file

Note that it will only work if you have the mod_rewrite module installed

Wow, ok, that worked for me. I read somewhere else about someone doing the exact same thing, and it broke their post permalinks. Maybe they didn’t have mod_rewrite on.

Thanks for the solution!!

FYI, the line to edit is line 1091 of classes.php on a default install (ver 2.0.6).